Assessing the Impact of Dunning – Kruger Effect on Secondary School Science Teachers

Dr. Patrick J. Uko; corresponding author; Dr Mary Patr?ck Uko; Dr Uduak James Utibe

doi:10.56201/ijee.v10.no3.2024.pg149.159

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Assessing the Impact of Dunning – Kruger Effect on Secondary School Science Teachers

Dr. Patrick J. Uko, corresponding author, Dr Mary Patr?ck Uko, Dr Uduak James Utibe

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This study undertook an assessment of the impact of Dunning-Kruger effect on Secondary School science teachers in Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District of Nigeria. The study adopted the Ex-post facto designand equally utilized the Multi-Stage Sampling Technique. A sample size of hundred science teachers and three hundred students, selected from ten out of eighty seven public secondary schools was used for the study. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The instrument for data collection consisted of a 20 items Science Teacher’s Competency Questionnaire and a Physics Pedagogy Checklist. The instruments were validated by two experts in physics and measurement and evaluation for face and content validity. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alfa, which yielded a satisfactory reliability coefficient of 0.87. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and t-test. Findings showed that non- physics specialist teachers rated themselves very highly on their competencies in physics teaching, indicating a Dunning –Kruger effect. The result also revealed that students taught by specialist physics teachers outperformed their counterparts taught by non-specialist physics teachers. In view of the findings, the following recommendations were made among others. That only specialist science teachers should be allowed to teach specific science subjects. There should be continuous appraisal of science teachers on their level of competencies as a quality assurance mechanism. All schools should have mediational tools to assist incompetent science teachers.

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